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• We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.
  Hesiod...
• From whose eyelids also as they gazed dropped love.
  -- Hesiod (c. 700 BC) -- The Theogony, Line 910...
• Night, having Sleep, the brother of Death. -- Hesiod (c. 700 BC) -- The Theogony, Line 754
• On the tongue of such an one they shed a honeyed dew, -- Hesiod (c.
  700 BC) -- The Theogony, Line 82...
• Fools! they know not how much half exceeds the whole.
  -- Hesiod (c. 700 BC) -- Works and Days, Line 40...
• Gain not base gains; base gains are the same as losses.
  -- Hesiod (c. 700 BC) -- Works and Days, Line 353...
• A bad neighbour is as great a misfortune as a good one is a great blessing.
  -- Hesiod (c. 700 BC) -- Works and Days, Line 346...
• Diligence increaseth the fruit of toil. A dilatory man wrestles with losses.
  -- Hesiod (c. 700 BC) -- Works and Days, Line 412...
• For himself doth a man work evil in working evils for another.
  -- Hesiod (c. 700 BC) -- Works and Days, Line 265...